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mlx-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
77 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
67 vs 86

Hardware

mlx-community/meta… qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1416
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.5.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/meta… qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec54.389.9
First chunk277 ms188 ms
TTFT277 ms188 ms
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage4.2 GB30.2 GB
Memory %7%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

mlx-community/meta-llam…

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3-coder:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest